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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1920)
2L THE- 3IOBNING OltEG ONI AN, TUESDAY, MAT 11, 1920 Gaining New Momentum, New Scope, New Strength, New Interest As It Progresses This Anniversary Celebration Excites the Admiration of All H NEW Many New Lots On Sale Today Scores of Unadvertised Values Next to its engrossing magnitude the amazing thing about this MEIER & FRANK 63d Anniversary Sales Celebration is its versatility. To recite the departments interested would be like calling the roll of the more than 80 different merchandise sections which make up this -selling institution. ' c EsUttU4 l-gT I8B7 Tmc: Quality Store- op- Portland v The point for you to realize is that this sale touches at one point of another practically the entire round of your daily requirements and the no less important con sideration that Anniversary prices are SPECIAL PRICES. You don't need to be told how good or how new this MEIER & FRANK merchandise is. NEW Many New Lots On Sale Today Scores of Unadvertised Values HERE IN EASILY ASSIMILABLE FORM IS A CONDENSED LIST OF THE VALUES FOR TODAY Fine Hats V2 $7.50 to $22.50 Our unusual one-of-a-kind hats which are beau--tifully made and interestingly trimmed. Scores of models to please every taste. Meier & Frank's: Fourth floor. Women's Suits $59J50 to $96.67 Etons and Novelties These are our standard $85.00 to $145.00 suits in youthful styles with more frivolity than tailored suits usually possess. Mostly tricotine in navy but with some checks included. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Silk Dresses $39.50 Taffeta, Foulard, Georgette Just such dresses as one wants to wear these hot days. Another special purchase added to the won derful lots which we have been offering recently. Not all sizes in every style but plenty of variety for everybody. Meier &Frank'E: Fourth Floor. Tricolette Blouses 5.55, $6.95 Very Special Tricolette blouses are the great success of the season and at these extraordinary prices we do not know how much will be left from the first day's sale for today's choosing. Colors that actually sing of summer days. Short sleeves. Meier & Frank's: Fourth Floor. Women's Gloves 73c, $2.69 Silk and Leather 73c for silk and fabric gloves in various lengths and colors. $2.69 for regular $3.75 to $5.00 gloves, including white capeskin in gauntlets, gray suede with two clasps, French lambskin two clasp gloves and many of chamois and doeskin. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Silk Stockings $2 5 Fine Ones for Dress McCallum and other high grade stockings of light weight thread silk. Black, navy, covert, gray, bronze, pink. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Sale of Corsets Standard Makes $3.50 for Nemo Self-Reducing corsets which need new elastic for the garters; otherwise perfect; sizes 22 to 36. $2.47 for regular $3.50 American Lady front lace corsets. v $4.50 for regular $6.50 Frolaset waist-line cor sets of pink brocade. $1.98 for regular $2.50 to $3.50 brassieres. Jleier & Frank's: Third Floor. Summer Underclothes Third Floor Contributions 690 for regular 79c and 98c boudoir caps of silk or net. 850 for regular $1.29 and $1-59 bloomers of pink or white batiste. 980 to $2.95 for regular $1.29 to $3.59 enve lope chemises. $1.95 to $2.79 for regular $2.5 to $5.95 'camisoles. $2.95 to $4.95 for regular $3.59 to $7.50 night gowns. . $;?.15 to $4.95 for regularv $3.95 to $5.95 hand made night gowns. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Negligees Reduced Cotton or Velvet $22.50 for regular $27.50 corduroy negligees in colored stripes. $24.50 for regular $37.50 velveteen' negligees combined with georgette crepe. $3.95 for regular $4.95 to $8.50 Japanese crepe kimonos. $3.95 and $5.95 for regular $6.95 and $8.50 blanket bathrobes. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Men's and Boys' Underwear Summer Weights Men's $2.00 "Corwith" union suits $1.45. Men's $2.50 Richmond union suits $1.95. Men's $2.00 B. V. D. athletic union suits - $1.55. Men's $3.00 Chalmers union suits, sub-standards, $1.49. Men's $3.50 soisette athletic union suits $2.35. Men's Excelsior and Uncle Sam athletic union suits $1.45. Boys' $1.50 union suits $1.15. Boys' $1.25 union 6uits 850. Meier & Frank'e: Main Floor. Silk Sweaters $42J0 and $75 . Were $60 and $85 Sweaters at $42.50 are beautiful slip-ons with batik patterns. The sweaters at $75 are of plain fine weaves in almost every color. Sizes for women. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. House Dresses $4.35 Dix-Make Dresses Spring styles in the regular $5.00 Dix-make dresses. Of good percale and gingham. Regular size 36 to 46 and extra sizes 48 to 52. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Women's Low Shoes $8.95 Pumps and Oxfords Very special prices on women's smart pumps and oxfords at the very beginning of the low shoe sea son. Famous J. & T. Cousins shoes included at less than today's wholesale prices. All sizes in the lot but not all sizes in each style. Meier & Frank's: Third Floor. Real Laces One-Fourth Off Treasures for Everyone Our entire large stocks of many real laces may be had at this reduction of 25 for Anniversary. Va lenciennes, binche, cluny, filet, Carrickmacross, honi ton, rose point, duchesse, venise, princesse, applique and others. Widths Ya to 27 inches. Prices begin at 260 and go to $52.50 yard. Until now they have been 35c to $70.00 yard. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Neckwear $2.63 to $40.12 All With Real Lace Exquisite hand-made collars with real filet, Irish crochet, Carrickmacross, Limerick, rose point and other laces. Meier Frank's: Main Floor. Summer Jewelry Sale Many Novelties i Lavallieres at 50c, back combs with rhinestones at 98c, ten-karat gold rings at $1, finer gold rings at . half price $1.99 to $7.50, imitation pearl beads at $3.98, genuine cameo brooches at $4.39 to $7.95, in destructible pearl beads at $7.50 and $12. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Art Needlework Specially Priced $1.19 for regular $1.50 luncheon sets of white art cloth stamped for embroidery. $1.39 for women's regular $1.69 combination suits of nainsook stamped for embroidery. $1.49 for regular $2.00 pillow slips stamped for embroidery. $1.49 for regular $2.00 nainsook night gowns stamped for embroidery; sizes 34 to 42. $1.98 for regular $2.50 voile blouses stamped for embroidery; medium and large sizes. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Sports Silks $625 Were $8.00 to $12.00 White sports silks, plain Dew Kist, printed Dew Kist, colored fiber paulette, checked fiber tricolette, Fan-ta-si and Kumsi-Kumsa. For sports skirts and country club costumes. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. For Girls and Children All Sorts of Things Misses' outing breeches at 79c. Small girls' out ing suits $1.59. Larger children's hiking suits $2.89. Misses' khaki dresses $3.89. Misses' wash middies 9Sc to $5.95. Baby's wrappers $3.59. Baby's quits $2.95 to $5.95. Baby's gertrude skirts 50c. Baby's silk hose 59c. Baby's cotton vests 25c. Baby's wrappers 50c. Baby's Beacon blankets $1.89. Meier & Frank's: Second Floor. Aluminumware -New and Special! "Lifetime" aluminum ware, including l'i-quart lipped saucepans at 77c, the 3-quart lipped sauce pans at 99c, the IVi-quart rice boilers at $1.89 and the 6-quart tea kettles at $4.39. Meier & Frank's: Basement. Chippendale Plated Silver Specials Excellent Values Sets of six tea spoons $1.33; six table spoons $2.66; six soup spoons $2.66; six salad forks $3.24; six oyster forks $2.79; six medium forks $2.66; six medium knives $2.95; six bouillon spoons $2.66. r Fancy pieces include cold meat forks 95c; berry spoons $1.52; sugar shells 58c; cream ladles 76c; gravy ladles $1.14; soup ladles $2.85; baby spoons 45c; children's sets $1.52. Meier & Frank's: Main Floor. Philadelphia Lawn Mowers Specially Priced Highest grade of lawn mowers and easiest run ning. Our entire regular stock was marked un usually low and now some of the best numbers are specially priced from $8.29 to $20.99. Meier & Frank's: Basement. To Furnish the Summer Home This bright May weather makes everyone want to get on the porch and into the country. The hotter the day the more one wishes for the delights of grass fur niture, of cretonnes and all the things which bring beauty and coolness into the home. This splendid sale of summer furniture, rugs, up holsteries, plated silver and many other articles offers real inducements for choosing things at once. The Sale of Furniture includes rustic hickory largely hand-made and with splint bot toms. Also maple chairs with rattan seats. Then there are fiber, reed, grass and Windsor chairs, some with cretonne upholstery. Besides there are four-post bedroom sets and dignified dining room sets at large savings. Meier & Frank'e: Eighth Floor. Sale of Draperies, Etc. Our interior decorators have designed ten complete window treatments which include the over-draperies, sash curtains and trimmings at prices between $15.25 and $95.04, according to size and material. These different designs are actually made up ready to see and mounted on sample window frames. We shall be glad to show them to you and make any explanations you may wish. Window Shades $1 and $1.25 Widths to 42 inches $1.00. Widths to 54 inches $1.25. Best oiled opaque shades. Cretonne Curtains $3.15 Pair Almost half price for these delightful cretonne summer curtains hemmed at the sides and bottom. Vudor Porch Shades at last season's prices 25 less than the new arrivals, priced $3.40 to $13.50 for 4-foot to 12-foot sizes. Now Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. A Great Sale of Rugs This rug sale is the BIG rug sale of 1920. It offers a number of large econ omies on the kinds of rugs most needed for summer homes. Not only many kinds but the variety of patterns is un limited. Extraordinary disposal of rag, rat tania, grass, tapestry Brussels, velvet, Axminster and Wilton rugs; also mat tings and linoleums. A 24x36-inch rag rug is now reduced to $1.29 and up to one of our finest 9x12 foot rag rugs, $21.75. A 30x60-inch rattania rug can be had specially at $2.15 and others up to a 9xl2-foot rattania for $16.75. These are the summer rugs which can be sponged oyer with ivory soap and water. A 26x48-inch bedroom Kaba rug is $2.19 and up to a 9xl2-foot size at $24.65. Our entire stocks of these reduced. A 6x9-f oot grass rug is special at $5.65 and there are others up to 9x12 rugs special at $12.85. . 9x12 rugs of tapestry Brussels, velvet, Axminster and Wilton are now $28.75 to $93.50 they were $35.00 to $125.00. ' Please bring your measurements. Meier & Frank's: Seventh Floor. The Year's Big Sale of Cottons Colored Dress Cottons 25c for regular 35c percale, light and dark colors, 25 inches wide. 60 for regular $1 voile and crepe in pretty designs, 36 inches wide. 60c for regular $1 printed voiles, somewhat like georgette, 36 inches wide. 75c for regular $1 shirtings of striped madras. 98c for regular $1.25 and $1.50 silk and cotton mix tures for linings, slips and draperies, 36 inches wide. $1.75 for regular $2.50 and $3.00 mercerized ma terials which look like silk, 38 inches wide. White Cottons 30c for regular 50c flaxon checks in all white, 27 inches wide. 75c for regular $1 pique for sports skirts and boys' suits, 36 inches wide. 75c fr regular $1 nainsook, finely mercerized, 45 inches wide. 25c for regular 40c outing cloth, 27 inches wide. Comforts, Bedspreads, Blankets $3.60 for regular $1 cotton-filled comforts, silko line covered. 2.50 for regular $3.50 crochet bedspreads, double-bed size. S6.00 for regular $9 satin-finished bedspreads, double-bed size. $2.85 for regular $3.25 cotton blankets, 64x76 inches. S3 .95 for regular $5 white blankets, 72x80 inches. $5.45 for regular $6 blankets, white, gray, tan, 66x80 inches. $5.85 for regular $6.50 blankets, assorted plaids, 66x80 inches. Table Cloths, Damask, Towels $3.25 for regular $4 table cloths of mercerized cotton, 70 x70 inches. $4.25 for regular $5 table cloths, 70x88 inches. $3.98 for regular $5 .table cloths of extra heavy mercerized cottqn, will not lint, 70x70 inches. $4.98 for regular $6 table cloths, 70x88 Inches. $1.69 for regular $2.25 ex tra heavy damask, mercerized 70 inches .wide. 35c each, 3 for $1, for. our regular 40c cotton huck towels, 18x38' inches. $6.75 dozen for regular 60c bath or hand towels, 22x42 inches. jj Meier & Frank': Second. Floor.